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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by bonestormii_ on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:45AM (#24354329)
Maybe, but I have drivers for the monitors and everything else factory default windows install. It’s some ASUS predator gaming laptop that I inherited, but it’s reasonably powerful.
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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by signal11 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:49PM (#24357213)
You may need a driver for the laptop's video card. The 'tearing' you describe is very characteristic of Microsoft's generic display drivers, perhaps for some reason the OS was unable to auto-install the driver?

Or the graphics card isn't being used for some reason? E.g., if your laptop has NVidia's Optimus[1], the graphics card may be inactive while Word's running. There's usually a way to force applications to use the GPU with Optimus.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/optimus/

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by bonestormii_ on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:17PM (#24358242)
Definitely have actual Nvidia drivers installed.
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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by PeterStuer on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:41AM (#24363933)
Predator is an Acer line, not ASUS. Are you sure Word is using the nVidia gpu and not the Intel (on processor) gpu?
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